FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (this was Joshers subject line...I dont even wanna think about finishing it...)

On Monday, February 22, 2016, 3:15 PM, Joshua Lyndon Jackson <jljackson@myldsmail.net> wrote:

so this week was  rough... their was a ton of stupid traveling, dealing with some seriously DUMB missionary's, insufficient funds and well Sunday. 

so stupid traveling- my comp were in a bus for most of the week going to Cordoba (which is a 4 hr trip one way) for my comps legal papers which btw are still not done. cruz el eje( a 1:30hr trip one way) for interviews and district leader lessons for my comp. and la falda( a 1:30hr trip one way) to help out our lazy sisters get some baptisms and for district meetings! LAME!!!!!! so we worked 1 day in our area last week and so how managed to get some news and teach a family for their baptism. CRAZY!!! 

dealing with stupid members and missionary's- so the members here are not like they are back home. we had to assign talks for church and we literally called ALL of our 15 members and they all said NO !!!!! LIKE WHAT THE HECK!!! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT !!!!! so what we did was just had all 6 of the youth give short talk / testimony's about their experiences at efy and then my comp and i gave talks. que salami! and during priesthood meeting our two presidents got into a full on argument on whos job it was to do visiting teaching so of course they look at me and try and blame me for the fact that our area has a ton of menos activos and i seriously dropped SOME CANE on these two dumb a old farts who want the title of president but don't care for the people. needles to say visiting teaching will be done by our presidents and members and the presidents really dislike me hahahah! seriously it was bad i sorta regret it but no biggy had to be done :P and then dang i dont know why god always trusts young kids with super important jobs!? seriously some of these kids just DO NOT GET IT! just pray for me please cause these elders are killin me hah

insufficient fund- so last month we had a 16 year old mini missionary with and and while he was here he managed to blow all his money so we all had to help him out which is no biggy it happens and he was super young but then he didn't bother to pay me back the 200 pesos i lent him then he proceeded to steal another 200 out of my money.. what a little shart! then then month my comp didn't get his monthly rashon of money because their was a mistake at the office and for some reason the elder cant pay him the money he needs to live( it was ugly when we where in Cordoba and the elder in charge of finances didnt give him his cash) so we have been living off of my personal funds and because of all the traveling i am FLAT BROKE!!! i swear if my comp doesn't pay me back in full its gonna be ugly!!!! 

and then Sunday- so my comp and i were awoken at a bright and early 4:30 to a trashed 20 year old chick banging on our door demanding that we let her in and that our house was hers. so for the next 3 hrs my comp and i attempted calling the cops (4 time and by the way they didn't show), attempting to help (which only made her even more ticked), and trying to get her gone which eventually worked after like 3 hrs....

so highlights of her visit 

1. woken up way to early thinking that we were about to get into an ugly fight

2. being called every bad word in Spanish and English (which was honestly impressive) 

3.being offered sex to let her in hahahaha my comp and i couldn't stop laughing about that one 

4. and having her punch a hole thru our glass back door 

it was quite a way to start a day! 

but honestly it doesn't even matter because last Sunday i had the opportunity to baptize a little girl. and seriously no matter how crappy or hard the week is or how difficult the people are its all good because the feeling of baptism just drowns out everything else. i love this work and im grateful that im here! 

i love you all so much and thank you for everything and especially all your prayers they do make a difference! 

"here she is, super sweet and so darn cute too :)"

LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!! 

Elder Jackson

Monday February 15, 2016

Feb 15 at 3:38 PM
 

ok so im really sorry about last weeks letter SUPER lame but to be perfectly honest it was a super lame week! but this week has been just CRAY!!! ive given about a million blessing, we had a baptism, taught lessons in church, contacted, and have had to travel like crazy.... im tired!!!!! and dang Argentina law reminds me of dad hahahaha!!! but  i absolutely love blessings in Spanish the spirit is just always there and its amazing to have the authority to literally speak gods words! i love it the language is HELA tricky but such a blessing at the same time !

so i learned a very valuable lesson this week that was really hard for me to understand. everyone needs baptism EVEN if they don't understand or have all the lessons and principles of the gospel because people NEED the holy spirit to teach them. because lets be honest who teaches better the spirit or 2 18 year old kids. this was hard because dang the MTC BRAINWASHES US !!!!!!!!!!!!!! but now all is good and im so dang ready to help people have one of the most amazing experiences of their lives!!! AL AGUA PAPA MAMA Y HIJOS!!!!!!!!!

so i gave a lesson in priesthood about blessings and how we give them correctly because for 1 their is a TON of wrong stuff like bad apostasy in Argentina and because out of the 5 Melchizedek priesthood holder in capilla non of them knew the words for blessings and how they are properly done! DANG the old men here do not like us missionary's because they really don't like being taught the proper way that things are done in the church hahahaha but its all good :P

and so we are in charge of a pair of sisters and they live like 2 hrs away and they are SO HIGH MAINTENANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! literally we where their helping them contact people and they are so LAZYYY we literally wasted the entire day! then we get home and the next morning they call us and are like yeah we have a ghost in our house and we need you 2 to come here again and bless it............ my comp and i just looked at each other and said well your going to have to ask a priesthood holder in your area to do that because we actually gotta work. so we work for a day then we get a call and my comp needs to go to Cordoba for some paperwork. and Cordobas like 4 hrs away so its basically a day trip. so we go to Cordoba and when we get to the police station the church's law guy tells me to run really fast and grab a ton of soda and food so i do it and im like sweet lunch but then my comp look at me and goes you know this food isn't for us right? and im just like WHAT WHY and just looks at me laughs and goes dude the papers we need get done 100% illegally!!!! so in Argentina the church bribes the CRAP out of the gov and cops with food and A TON of cash to let us in the county hahahahah THATS TOTALLY SOMETHING DAD WOULD TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gosh i love this country!!!

and im so happy that yall got to go to Mexico and play!!!!!! and dad im so excited to see what ya got ! and CRAY IM SO SORRY!!! i don't remember breaking your bosch but if i did i am sooooooo sorry seriously not cool!!!!!!! and hey so i have a Q! do you guys want me to try and send packages because Ive talked to a lot of elders and they say its CRAZY expensive and apparently it never gets to the states... so do yall want me to keep them packed away and when i get back we can a super good Christmas !!!??

i love you all SO much thank you for everything especially your love and support! be patient and stay happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUERTE !!!!

LOVE, Josh

oh and dad P.S. if you want to say .hey friend thanks for everything! i have donuts for you. its . hola amigo muchisimo gracias por todo! yo tengo donuts or facturas para usted !

love ya keep working at that Spanish and one tip to speak like a native. don't extend the sound of your words because in Spanish apparently it sounds super gay hahaha yeah i had to learn that one the hard way XP

February 8, 2016

To

Terez Jackson

Feb 8 at 12:16 PM

so this past week i finished my first transfer... dang the time fly's! so in mission terms Ive killed my father which means i was my trainers last comp and i got to see him off. dang it was so bitter sweet Elder Calvi was such an amazing missionary and such a killer example it was such a blessing to have him train me. but my new comp is a killer guy to plus hes super smart so im thinking my Spanish is gonna get way better with him!  really nothings going on for me but ill keep yall posed !

love you all!!!!! Elder Jackson

What a weenie!

 He thinks hes Hot Poop with his sleeves all rolled up!  What a DORK!!!!

Josh's compi's that he lives with.  I'll try and get their names...

First Baptism

Most of the ward members...

Josh said the Rio or River was to cold so they used a pool

ran outta food for breakfast so i ate my emergency Argentina tuna with onions, mayo, and salt and pepper for breakfast.... it was a bad way to start the day off

then this happened...

It was a picture of poop and more but Im not gonna post that...it was nasty!

Monday, February 1, 2016

Feb 1 at 12:42 PM

So this week has been an amazing blur..... ive seen some crazy blessings and miracles. to start off i gave 4 blessings in spanish this week yeah it was rough. but good practice and i love to do it.!! one of the blessing my First was with the bishop for his son(investigator) and wife who were sick. fun fact it was his first time giving a blessing too hahahahah so it sorta calmed my nerves!! and the other blessing was for a husband and wife who are investigators and they just felt the devil in their lives and asked us to help so we gave them blessings. it was really beautiful we were all pretty teared up afterword haha. 

so the son of the bishop isnt a member and hes a KILLER kid hes 17 HUGE and his name matius. but hes what we call SALAMI!!! which means he doesn't really want to progress. he goes to church every sunday even the ones when his fam doesn't go and hes at every activity we have with the youth but he just AH SALAMI!! so ive been praying for him and that he´ll want to progress and be baptized. so yesterday we are talking with him and he tells me that he had a dream where snakes were banging on his door so many that he had to push it closed with all of his energy and when the snakes left he opened the door looked in his front yard and me and my comp were there then pure water began to come from the ground and stopped at his waist...... so we talked it out with him snakes=sin water= baptism plain and straight and he wants to be baptized.... MIRACLE

oh and fun fact I BAPTIZED YESTERDAY

her names beatris ramona moshano and shes amazing ! we found her while contacting on tuesday and baptized her sunday. its amazing wednsday after a lesson she told us about a dream she had the night before where Jesus Christ literally came to her and said come to to me... shes got such faith seriously its amazing. it was crazy so sunday after church we were hanging with some members for lunch and i just felt off something just didn't feel right. so i look at my comp and he looks at me and says we need to go to beatises house right now. so we did and when we got there she was a PIPING HOT MESS she had just got into an argument with her family about the church and why she was being baptized. so we talk it out with her and she literally went from i don't want to be baptized to slamming her hands on the table and telling us i want baptism ! 

so i was super freaked out when my comp told me i was baptizing her!!! because the prayer in Spanish has some pretty rough words and NOBODY BAPTIZES THEIR 5th WEEK!!! so i study and study!!! and as soon as i step in the water i forgot  it all......... so a few seconds go by in awkward silence and then all the sudden Spanish starts coming outta my mouth... and as soon as she came up out of the water it was just beautiful... i don't even have words for the feeling... it was by far the most spiritual experience ive ever had and ill cherish it forever.... 

i hope all is well back home all love you all to death!!! BE SAFE AND BE GOOD!!!!! 

Love, Elder Jackson